Permission to view, photocopy, or for publication from a specified individual is required
for the Harvey Meyerson Letters in the Correspondence series. Contact reference staff
in the Harvard University Archives for details.

Henry A. Murray (1893-1988) American psychologist and Harvard professor, was a pioneer
in the development of personality theory.

Henry Alexander Murray was born in New York City on May 13, 1893 and died in Cambridge,
Massachusetts on June 23, 1988. He was educated at Groton and Harvard College where
he concentrated in history and graduated in 1915. He married Josephine Rantoul of
Boston in 1916. She joined him in New York where he completed his M.A. in biology
and M.D. at Columbia Medical School. Murray received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from
Cambridge University in 1927 and accepted an assistantship to Morton Prince at the
Harvard Psychological Clinic. Murray became interested in psychology through reading
Carl G. Jung's Psychological Types in 1923 and meeting Jung for three weeks in Switzerland
in 1925. His interest was spurred on by his acquaintance with Christiana Drummond
Morgan, an artist who shared his fascination with Jung, the unconscious and the writings
of Herman Melville. This passionate relationship continued in balance with his marriage
throughout his life.

At the Harvard Psychological Clinic Murray learned to practice psychoanalysis under
the supervision of Hanns Sachs. He headed up a research program which published Explorations in Personality, (Murray ed., et. al.), 1938. In 1938 he was asked by the U.S. Government to put
together a psychological profile on Adolph Hitler. During the second World War he
served the U.S. Army by helping the forerunner of the CIA assess the psychological
fitness of its agents. Murray became a tenured lecturer at Harvard in 1947 and Professor
of Clinical Psychology in 1951. From 1948-1952, with the help of Morgan and others,
he developed the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), which could be used to assess an
individual's personality and self-understanding. Murray was a central figure in the
interdisciplinary Department of Social Relations. He retired from Harvard in 1962,
six months after his wife's death. Murray's energy continued as he kept up his research
and married Caroline "Nina" Fish, Co-Director of the Psycho-educational Clinic at
Boston University's School of Education.

Murray's main interest included personology, Melville and the welfare of the world
in the atomic age. In his "Basic Concepts for a Psychology of Personality", (Journal of Psychology, 15, 1936), he described personology as "the disciplined study of human nature."
This included studying individual memory, thought and action and their development
over time, studying the integration of a person's inner outer life, their likes, dislikes,
feelings and fears, and categorizing elements which contribute to an enduring life-long
disposition, both professional and vocational. Murray published several articles on
Melville's life and works and drafted a biography of Melville. He was considered by
the Melville Society to be one of the scholars to bring about the Melville revival
in the 1920's. His connection with the Society continued into his final years. The
dawning of the atomic age concerned Murray, who considered the world to be in a state
of "global neurosis." He argued for a democratic world government and a radical conversion
of personalities so that the world be a safer place to live. He hoped that a synthesis
of universal myths, truths and wisdom could turn the situation around.

Henry A. Murray was a renegade in his field in that, despite his extensive medical
and scientific background, he maintained a disdain for scientism in psychology. He
saw the study of personality as the study of human lives. He was a charismatic character
who attracted many followers, both students and colleagues. A biography has been written
by Forrest G. Robinson entitled Love's Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray.

These papers document the professional life of Henry A. Murray. . To a lesser extent,
the papers provide insight into Murray's personal life. Contained within the Murray
papers are some personal papers of Christiana Morgan.

Scope and Content: Contains correspondence arranged by the personal name of the correspondent (this
includes some classification by first name, when no last name was available), and
then by the date. The correspondence includes letters, postcards and telegrams, primarily
from others to Murray, but some copies of letters written by Murray are interspersed
throughout the series.

Some early correspondence relates to Murray's experience with the 1917 draft, and
his entrance to medical school. Later correspondence relates to arrangement of meetings
and conferences, discussion of writings in progress , and request for recommendations
from Murray. Some later correspondence also relates to Murray's involvement with World
War II military and his interest in the Melville Society.

A 1910-1988
(26 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 1

Letter regarding founding of Harvard
Department of Social Sciences: The "A" folder for 1945 contains a letter
probably signed by Clyde
Kluckhohn (1905-1960), Harvard
Professor of Anthropology to Henry Murray. The
letter, addressed "Dear Harry" and dated
November 18, informs Murray that Paul
Herman Buck is ready to establish
a Department of Social
Sciences at Harvard.

A 1937-1988
(2 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 2

B 1910-1945
(18 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 2

B 1919-1988
(10 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 3

C 1910-1956 (22 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 4

C 1945-1988 (5 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 5

D 1910-1941
(15 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 5

D 1939-1987 (11 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 6

E 1915-1987
(21 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 6

F 1915-1987
(24 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 7

G 1910-1934
(8 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 7

G 1932-1987
(17 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 8

H 1910-1937
(11 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 8

H 1935-1988 (17 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 9

I 1928-1987 (13 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 10

J 1928-1987 (23 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 10

K 1928-1987 (23 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 11

L 1910-1987
(27 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 12

M 1910-1943
(16 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 13

M 1944-1985
(9 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 14

M 1940-1987
(2 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 15

N 1915-1987
(15 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 15

O 1910-1987
(18 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 16

P 1910-1943
(16 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 16

P 1941-1987
(11 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 17

Q 1946-1987
(2 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 17

R 1910-1956
(22 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 18

R 1947-1987
(4 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 19

S 1910-1988
(25 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 20

S 1946-1988
(4 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 21

T 1910-1987
(23 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 22

U 1939-1987
(5 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 22

V 1915-1987
(15 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 23

W 1910-1937
(12 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 23

W 1937-1988
(15 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 24

Y 1939-1987
(7 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 25

Z 1910-1987
(16 folders) HUGFP 97.6 Box 25

HUGFP 97.8 Topical, 1917-1975 (4 boxes)

Note on the Harold McCurdy Correspondence: The correspondence with Harold McCurdy in this series was received not from Murray,
but from McCurdy.

Scope and Content: Contains articles and pamphlets by Ina May Greer and others relating to her work
on the study of personality, aging and pastoral care while she was a psychiatric research
assistant at Massachusetts General Hospital. Also contains notes, lectures, book reviews,
poetry and other writings by Greer, as well as correspondence with Murray and other
professional acquaintances.

Ina May Greer HUGFP 97.15 Box 1

from Iowa HUGFP 97.15 Box 1

Hansi materials HUGFP 97.15 Box 1

Hansi, 1944-1975 and
undated (5 folders) HUGFP 97.15 Box 1

Hansi Poems HUGFP 97.15 Box 2

Book reviews HUGFP 97.15 Box 2

Lectures and writing (3 folders) HUGFP 97.15 Box 2

HUGFP 97.17 Lewis Mumford, 1924-1981 (2 boxes)

Related Material: Other Mumford letters are in the alphabetical general correspondence files.

Scope of the Mumford Subseries: Contains letters to and from Lewis Mumford throughout the development of their friendship.
Subjects relate to their common interest in Melville and psychology, the writing of
Mumford's autobiography and their close circle of friends.

Special Restriction: Permission to view, photocopy, or for publication from a specified individual is
required for the Harvey Meyerson Letters. Please contact the Reference staff in the
Harvard University Archives for details.

Scope and Content: Contains correspondence relating to the developments in Harvey Meyerson's and Murray's
common interests in Melville and Jung. Reveals the development of their relationship
through Meyerson's work on a biography of Melville.

Personal

HUGFP 97.10 Postcards, 1960-1975 (1 box)

Scope and Content: Contains assorted postcards from family members, friends, acquaintances and students.
Files are arranged alphabetically by personal name of the sender.

HUGFP 97.21 Engagement Letters, 1915 (1 box)

Scope and Content: Contains personal notes of congratulations from friends and family of both Josephine
Rantoul and Murray, on the event of their July 1915 engagement announcement.

HUGFP 97.23 Related to Wife's Death, 1962 (1 box)

Scope and Content: Contains letters of condolence from acquaintances and friends upon the death of Josephine
Lee Murray, January 14, 1962.

HUGFP 97.25 Family, 1907-1986 (1 box)

Scope and Content: Contains letters to Murray from his mother, wife, daughter, step-children, nephews
and nieces. Includes letters from Murray to his father from 1907-1915, letters form
Murray's sister to his daughter, and letters from Murray's daughter to his wife.

One folder contains genealogical information about the Murray family and published
descriptions of Murray's work.

Scope and Content: Contains grade school report cards, Harvard College records, photographs and newspaper
clippings. Also contains notes, articles, speeches, recommendations, travel notebooks
and one comical sketch written by Murray, and articles, poetry, prose and critiques
of Murray's work written by others.

Includes some interspersed correspondence relating to travels, awards, honorary degrees
and tributes to others.

Recommendations of others HUGFP 97.32 Box 1

A letter of recommendation for
Cambridge; Craigie and Groton HUGFP 97.32 Box 1

Report cards and letters, 1902-1924 HUGFP 97.32 Box 1

Records of Harvard College Class of
1915, as of 1979 HUGFP 97.32 Box 1

Scope of the Notebooks, Address Books, and Passports subseries: Some files relate to Murray's personal life, especially his later years. Two journal-like
bound books contain notes on various subjects chronologically arranged 1981-1984.
Pocket Calendars 1963-1974, 1983. Several address books, small notebooks with notes,
and passports.

Scope and Content: Contains papers and reports given at meetings of the American Psychological Association
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Includes Murray's writings on such
topics as "Evolutionary Theory and Human Progress" and "Religion in the Age of Science."
Also includes a large manuscript entitled "Scaffold for a Comprehensive System," an
extensive report completed by Murray for the APA's Committee on the Study of the Status
and Development of Psychology in the USA.

Scope and Content: Fifteen pencil and charcoal drawings depicting the rise and spread of "Hitlerism"
across Europe in the early-to-mid 1940's.

HUGFP 97.45.6 Human Nature, 1960-1970 (1 box)

Scope and Content: Contains notes and writings on human nature. Included are Murray's notes on the psychological
causes of alcoholism.

Human nature (2 folders)

Notes on alcoholism

Conflict

HUGFP 97.45.8 Icarus Study, 1945-1965 (5 boxes)

Historical Note: Murray coined the term "Icarus Complex" to describe the psychological tendency some
people exhibit to transcend the earthly sphere. An earlier term for this was "ascensionism."

Scope and Content: This series contains reports and data collected by Murray during his initial phase
of research on "ascensionism" or the "Icarus Complex." Contains
assorted notes, small compositions and a rough manuscript .

Scope and Content: Contains results of two separate experiments on individuals' memory relating to spoken
questions. The first records the oral responses of 46 participants to 16 questions.
Their responses were taped and then transcribed.

The second appears to have been a different set of 13 questions, to which 47 participants
were asked to respond in writing. They seem to have written what they remembered about
the question and then their own personal response. A list of names of the participants
is provided for the second experiment. Typed copies of their handwritten responses
are also included.

Taped Memory Experiment (5 folders) HUGFP 97.45.10 Box 1

Written Memory Experiment, (3 folders) HUGFP 97.45.10 Box 2

Memories already taped HUGFP 97.45.10 Box 2

HUGFP 97.45.12 Merrill Moore Study, 1954-1957 (3 boxes)

Scope and Content: Contains notes, interviews, and assorted biographical material used in Murray and
Christiana Morgan's study of the creation determinants of psychiatrist and poet Merrill
Moore. Also contains the findings of psychological tests done on Moore, an assortment
of his poetry, and rough drafts of chapters of the study completed by Morgan and Murray.

Scope and Content: Contains notes, outlines, and rough drafts of chapters pertaining to Murray's unfinished
manuscript entitled The Possible Nature of Mythology to Come. Also includes a collection of index cards with general information on mythology, myth, and religion. In addition, there is a paper entitled "Contrasting Views of Man" which Murray delivered at the 1955 Religion in the Age of Science Conference.

Myth book: prelude HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 1

First introduction HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 1

The Possible Nature of a
Mythology to Come HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 1

Thoughts on Myths, I (2 folders) HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 1

Myth Memos HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 1

Definition HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 1

More Myth HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 1

Myth Papers, 1958 HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 1

Myth definition notes HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 2

Definitions and bibliography HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 2

Myths HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 2

AAS, unity of learning HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 2

Miscellaneous (2 folders) HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 2

Note cards HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 3

Note cards HUGFP 97.45.14 Box 4

HUGFP 97.45.16 Personality, 1930-1970 (48 boxes)

Scope and Content: Research represented in this series centers around classifying human action, and
testing theories on personal development, thought processes, decision-making abilities,
needs, behaviors, stress reactions, socialization, and different physical and psychological
systems which permit people to function.

Papers

Scope and Content: Contains papers relating to Murray's research, writings and teaching in the psychology
of personality, for which the term "personology" is also used.

Includes manuscripts, drafts, outline, notes, notebooks, test data and results, questionnaires,
case study information and analysis, memoranda, interpretation and comment, collections
of literary quotes and newspaper and magazine clippings, papers written by researchers
other than Murray, and students' projects.

Scope and Content: Contains notes and writings on the state of academic psychology. Includes Murray's
notes on how a school of psychology ought to be organized as well as his manuscript
entitled "Psychology and the University".

Notes

Organization of a school of psychology

State of academic psychology

Empathy

Man-knowing

More notes

Harvard Bulletin

Miscellaneous

"Psychology and the University"

Murray notes on Harvard's antipathy to social sciences

Series: HUGFP 97.45.22 World Government and World Religion, 1950-1965 (9 boxes)

Scope and Content: Contains notes and typed drafts of chapters for Murray's never-completed novel on
a "World Government" and "World Religion." Also contains several articles on religion
and politics that most likely influenced Murray's thinking on the subject.

Scope and Content: This series contains several incomplete manuscripts of Murray's writings on student
unrest in general. Also included are notes, newspaper clippings, and letters on student
unrest at Harvard in particular.

Scope and Content: Contains articles and publications collected by Murray on student alienation and youth "beatnik" movements. Also contains Murray's Radcliffe address on the "beat" phenomenon as well as a copy
of Ken Keniston's work "Alienation and the Decline of Utopia."

Alienation, Beats - notes toward a study of Harvard College students

Materials on new myths, religion and beatniks

Alienation, Beats - materials on the Student Movement

Alienation, Beats - various, including MANAS articles

Alienation, Beats - Identity commitment

Alienation, Beats - various materials including Keniston draft

Alienation, Beats - Identity

Alienation, Beats - varied material

Series: Herman Melville

HUGFP 97.50 Herman Melville, series 1, ca. 1925-1985 (26 boxes)

Scope and Content: These files contain draft chapters of a proposed Melville biography, notes and research
done in connection with that biography, articles, drafts, notes, and research on various
aspects of Melville, his life, family, works, and relationships with others, secondary
literature on Melville, and photographs.

Scope and Content: These files contains Murray's "Introduction to Pierre", fragments of his proposed Melville biography and notes relevant to it, two 1988
drafts of "A Melville Mosaic", notes on Melville and Hawthorne, and notes on various works by Melville.

Scope and Content: These card files contain lecture notes, speech notes, bibliography, book lists, personality
notes, notes on Herman Melville and a variety of other subjects. Box 2 contains Christiana
Morgan's notes for her autobiography (together with some notes of H. A. Murray).

Processing Information: Many were received in a disordered state and little attempt has been made to organize
them.

HUGFP 97.57 Literary Quotes and Notes, 1940-1960 (7 boxes)

Scope and Content: Contains notes and quotations from literary sources and the Bible. Authors from whom
he quotes include psychologists, philosophers, playwrights, poets and novelists. Some
notes are from personal interviews although the individuals are unspecified. Quotations
and notes are on notecards and slips of paper (3x5 and 4x6).

HUGFP 97.60 Miscellaneous Notes, ca. 1925-1988 (3 boxes)

Acquisition Information: To be reviewed for future disposal.

Processing Information: The notes were received in an extremely disorganized state; no attempt was made to
organize or arrange them.

Special Restriction on Access: Restricted. Permission of curator required.

Scope and Content: Contains practice intelligence testing and analysis files of students in Murray's
Social Relations 285 class. Each student was apparently required to practice administering
and analyzing a variety of intelligence quotient tests to willing subjects, some of
whom were Harvard students. Folder titles below refer to students in the class administering
the tests, not to the test subjects.

Mortimer Slaiman HUGFP 97.65 Box 1

Eugene Smith HUGFP 97.65 Box 1

Dorothy Spatz HUGFP 97.65 Box 1

Bernard Schwartz HUGFP 97.65 Box 1

Barbara London HUGFP 97.65 Box 1

Andrew MacLachlan HUGFP 97.65 Box 1

Melvin B. Schlank HUGFP 97.65 Box 1

S.R. 285, Frank Boring HUGFP 97.65 Box 2

S.R., Lora Heims HUGFP 97.65 Box 2

S.R. 285, Ruth Friedenthal HUGFP 97.65 Box 2

S.R. 285, William Fowler HUGFP 97.65 Box 2

S.R. 285, Dick Jones HUGFP 97.65 Box 2

S.R. 285, Norman Prentice HUGFP 97.65 Box 2

Joseph Lord, examiner HUGFP 97.65 Box 3

Peter Madison HUGFP 97.65 Box 3

Fr. Mailhiot HUGFP 97.65 Box 3

Laura Mitchell HUGFP 97.65 Box 3

Paul Miller HUGFP 97.65 Box 3

Philip Nogee HUGFP 97.65 Box 3

Fr. Nowlam HUGFP 97.65 Box 3

Janet Mackenzie HUGFP 97.65 Box 4

Roger Harter HUGFP 97.65 Box 4

Gloria Rustin HUGFP 97.65 Box 4

John Paul Sibilio HUGFP 97.65 Box 4

Howard Smith HUGFP 97.65 Box 4

Vita Wouk HUGFP 97.65 Box 4

Jacquiline Young HUGFP 97.65 Box 4

Francis King HUGFP 97.65 Box 5

Nathaniel Kidder HUGFP 97.65 Box 5

Margery Abegg HUGFP 97.65 Box 5

Doris Carr HUGFP 97.65 Box 5

Raymond Gilbert HUGFP 97.65 Box 5

Robert Harris HUGFP 97.65 Box 5

J.G. White HUGFP 97.65 Box 5

John Rodgrigues HUGFP 97.65 Box 6

Richard Sandison HUGFP 97.65 Box 6

Anne Solomon HUGFP 97.65 Box 6

J.A. Southworth HUGFP 97.65 Box 6

David N. Ulrich HUGFP 97.65 Box 6

Thomas Usiak HUGFP 97.65 Box 6

Tom Plant HUGFP 97.65 Box 7

Selina Rappaport HUGFP 97.65 Box 7

George Roth HUGFP 97.65 Box 7

Paul Sapir HUGFP 97.65 Box 7

Harold Zamansky HUGFP 97.65 Box 7

Joseph Schacter HUGFP 97.65 Box 8

Judson Shaplin HUGFP 97.65 Box 8

Miriam Stern HUGFP 97.65 Box 8

Henry Weinberg HUGFP 97.65 Box 8

Donald Wermore HUGFP 97.65 Box 8

Wilbur Wright HUGFP 97.65 Box 8

Herbert Caron HUGFP 97.65 Box 9

Milton Clark HUGFP 97.65 Box 9

Warren Freiband HUGFP 97.65 Box 9

Stanley King HUGFP 97.65 Box 9

Rachel Levin HUGFP 97.65 Box 9

Janice Berg HUGFP 97.65 Box 9

Anthony Davids HUGFP 97.65 Box 10

Philip Ennis HUGFP 97.65 Box 10

Douglas Heath HUGFP 97.65 Box 10

Edward Jones HUGFP 97.65 Box 10

Benjamin Murawski HUGFP 97.65 Box 10

Faygal Abromson HUGFP 97.65 Box 11

Edwin Broome HUGFP 97.65 Box 11

Albert Freedman HUGFP 97.65 Box 11

Sophie Freud HUGFP 97.65 Box 11

Robert Klein HUGFP 97.65 Box 11

Eliezer Krumbein HUGFP 97.65 Box 11

Series: Papers of Christiana Morgan

Scope and Content: Contains journal with stories written during Morgan's childhood, and notebooks from
her later years. Also contains correspondence from the Murrays, and some photographs
and negative of Morgan's house and artwork.

Scope and Content: Contains portraits and photographs artwork at the Morgan retreat house. Also contains
an essay by Gerald Kenjorski titled "Christiana's World," written in 1986 for visitors to the Morgan Tower.

HUGFP 97.90tr Slides, ca. 1950-1980 (1 box)

Scope and Content: Most slides depict 'the Tower,' the home of Christiana Morgan; some of these were
made by professional photographer Don MacSorley. A few slides depict personal events.